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The document discusses noun groups and their components including head nouns, pre-modifiers, and post-modifiers. It provides examples of noun groups from passages and exercises identifying noun groups in sentences and selecting the nouns, pre-modifiers, and post-modifiers.

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Topic 3

The document discusses noun groups and their components including head nouns, pre-modifiers, and post-modifiers. It provides examples of noun groups from passages and exercises identifying noun groups in sentences and selecting the nouns, pre-modifiers, and post-modifiers.

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ESLB2193 ENGLISH PROFICIENCY 2

Topic 3: Nouns in Groups


The lesson
Noun groups

• The black cat with the sharp claws.

• Consists of a head noun or pronoun “cat”


• Extended with additional words (modifiers)
• Pre-modifier “black”
• Post modifier “with the sharp claws”
Select the noun groups

• The funny looking girl in the long grey dress


was sitting on the grassy cliff. Stretching out in
front of her were the rolling plains covered with
wild- flowers. In the warm months of the year,
sweet smelling violets littered the valley.
Select the noun groups

• The funny looking girl in the long grey dress


was sitting on the grassy cliff. Stretching out in
front of her were the rolling plains covered with
wild- flowers. In the warm months of the year,
sweet smelling violets littered the valley.
How can we improve this
sentence with noun groups?
The dog walked into the shed. In his jaws he carried a mouse.
How can we improve this
sentence with noun groups?
The big fierce dog with pricked up ears scrambled into the bleak
shed. In his yellow stained, drooling jaws he carried a frightened
petite mouse
Identify the nouns, pre-modifiers
and post-modifiers in this
passage.

It was a warm sunny morning.


In his small house at the other side of the
wood, Mr Tickle was asleep.
You didn’t know there was such a thing as
a Tickle, did you?
Well, there is!
Tickles are small and round and have
arms that stretch and stretch.
Extraordinary long arms!
Mr Tickle was fast asleep. He was having
a dream. It must have been a very funny
dream because it made him laugh out
loud, and that woke him up.
He sat up in bed, stretched his
extraordinary long arms, and yawned an
enormous yawn.
Identify the nouns, pre-modifiers
and post-modifiers in this
passage.

It was a warm sunny morning.


In his small house at the other side of the
wood, Mr Tickle was asleep.
You didn’t know there was such a thing as
a Tickle, did you?
Well, there is!
Tickles are small and round and have
arms that stretch and stretch.
Extraordinary long arms!
Mr Tickle was fast asleep. He was having
a dream. It must have been a very funny
dream because it made him laugh out
loud, and that woke him up.
He sat up in bed, stretched his
extraordinary long arms, and yawned an
enormous yawn.

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